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I need a command line C++ compiler.
SamuraiRock
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Pretty self explanatory. My course has provided one but I've determined it doesn't work under Vista (probably because it's a copy of some file from the University of Colorado in 1995.)
So yeah, I need a command line c++ compiler that works in Vista. I don't want an IDE. I want to be able to whip open a command prompt in the folder with my makefile, type make, and voila. Why can't I find one
Any suggestions appreciated 
So yeah, I need a command line c++ compiler that works in Vista. I don't want an IDE. I want to be able to whip open a command prompt in the folder with my makefile, type make, and voila. Why can't I find one
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http://www.cygwin.org/
If you want to do C++ work a lot though, I would seriously recommend just installing a Linux distribution.
http://gcc.gnu.org/
That's what mingw and cygwin are.
I went with cygwin myself, since mingw is distributed using the "link to directory full of hundreds files on an ftp server" method, which makes it a tad difficult to figure out how to download, though it is the more minimal of the two options, IIRC.
Cygwin's pretty neat - you run the installer, and then when you run the cygwin program you get a nice Unix command line, complete with gcc and so forth.